Extractions: By David Rothman dr@teleread.org Update: Community groups in Chicago are following up on the lead of St. Elizabeths and are looking for volunteers for an e-book-related literacy program. Click here for a news release in Word format. - Jan. 4, 2002. SHAMERE: Enjoys e-books because "you can change the stories." O ne of the primary tenets of TeleRead in the Amazon.com era is that we mustn't let our library system decay like the urban school system. As many books as possible should be available in the Carnegie vein to rich and poor alike. Why replicate online the famous "savage inequalities"? Ironically, however, the South Side of Chicago, hardly the most upscale part of town, may be the setting for some of the best work with e-books in K-12. The experiment isn't happening in a bureaucracy-encumbered public school but rather at St. Elizabeth's Parochial School, which used a $7,000 federal grant to buy and experiment with several dozen Rocket eBook machines for elementary schoolers. KENDALL: Also keen on many choices in reading material.
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